(AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File)TRENTON, N.J. – A female inmate was punched 28 times and pepper-sprayed when guards attacked her and at least five other women, New Jersey officials said Thursday, bringing misconduct charges against three male prison guards.
The Clinton facility — New Jersey's lone women's prison — has a “long, ugly history," Grewal said.
Late on Jan. 11 and into the early hours of Jan. 12, about two dozen guards entered part of the prison and began to remove inmates, according to Grewal.
AdOne victim was pepper sprayed before the team of guards entered her cell, according to Grewal.
Several corrections officers at the prison have pleaded guilty or been convicted of sexual abuse and misconduct in recent years.